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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 28-30
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Hebrew is, The face of the deep is taken. The word notes taking, as a Captive or Prisoner is taken.1 The Lord takes the face of the deep Captive, and holds it as his Prisoner during pleasure. They who inhabit or travel to the Northern Climes, have so m••h experience that the face of the deep is frozen, that I need not further insist upon any proof of it; nor shall I further treat of these effects of Cold, Frost and Ice, as considered in a natural way: Only for the close of all, and a little improvement of them in a moral or spiritual way, we may consider them in a twofold resemblance.
The Hebrew is, The face of the deep is taken. The word notes taking, as a Captive or Prisoner is taken.1 The Lord takes the face of the deep Cap•ive, and holds it as his Prisoner during pleasure. They who inhabit or travel to the Northern Climes, have so m••h experience that the face of the deep is frozen, that I need not further insist upon any proof of it; nor shall I further treat of these effects of Cold, Frost and Ice, as considered in a natural way: Onely for the close of all, and a little improvement of them in a moral or spiritual way, we may consider them in a twofold resemblance.
- 1Quasi ligata & captivata esset.
First, Ice and Frost resemble all humane things. The things of this world, are they not like a Sea of Ice? that is, First, Very slippery. Secondly, Very Uncertain, how long they will last or continue. Some conceive, that, the Sea of glass like unto Chrystal, which was represented unto St John in Vision (Rev. 4.6